Automation tails from the fox hole

Reading recommendations

I know this is mostly a tech blog, but I am a person with lots of interests outside of PowerShell and tech.

Here, I’ll keep a list of what books I’m reading now, a link to them if you want to get them, and mini reviews of them. If you have a recommendation for me, I’d love to hear it too, so hit me up in the comments and let’s get nerdy.

Set in 2035, technology has grown by leaps and bounds, and a popular designer drug emerges, named Nexus. It allows it’s users to run software in their minds, experience another person’s memories, and even share emotions.

People flock to take this drug, which creates a flurry of new laws aimed at making persons who take such drugs no longer persons, removing their constitutional rights. It’s a battle between old and new, as humanity ascends beyond a solitary experience, and become something trans-human, something post-human entirely.

Ramez Naam worked at Microsoft for years in their research and product team. He understands the face of the future, and his world vibrantly lives on the page, full of sights and sounds, humid weather, thunderstorms and ferocious city leveling hurricanes caused by unchecked climate change.

Mostly, I want Nexus to exist today so that I can take it.

He is close personal friends with the author of the next book I’ll recommend, and you can tell they’ve brain stormed together, reading their books.